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3 March 2017 Ultrasound guidance system for prostate biopsy
Johann Hummel, Reinhard Kerschner, Marcus Kaar, Wolfgang Birkfellner, Michael Figl
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Abstract
We designed a guidance system for prostate biopsy based on PET/MR images and 3D ultrasound (US). With our proposed method common inter-modal MR-US (or CT-US in case of PET/CTs) registration can be replaced by an intra-modal 3D/3D-US/US registration and an optical tracking system (OTS). On the pre-operative site, a PET/MR calibration allows to link both hybrid modalities with an abdominal 3D-US. On the interventional site, another abdominal 3D US is taken to merge the pre-operative images with the real-time 3D-US via 3D/3D-US/US registration. Finally, the images of a tracked trans-rectal US probe can be displayed with the pre-operative images by overlay. For PET/MR image fusion we applied a point-to-point registration between PET and OTS and MR and OTS, respectively. 3D/3D-US/US registration was evaluated for images taken in supine and lateral patient position. To enable table shifts between PET/MR and US image acquisition a table calibration procedure is presented. We found fiducial registration errors of 0.9 mm and 2.8 mm, respectively, with respect to the MR and PET calibration. A target registration error between MR and 3D US amounted to 1.4 mm. The registration error for the 3D/3D-US/US registration was found to be 3.7 mm. Furthermore, we have shown that ultrasound is applicable in an MR environment.
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Johann Hummel, Reinhard Kerschner, Marcus Kaar, Wolfgang Birkfellner, and Michael Figl "Ultrasound guidance system for prostate biopsy", Proc. SPIE 10135, Medical Imaging 2017: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 101352A (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254004
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KEYWORDS
Image registration

Positron emission tomography

Image fusion

Calibration

Prostate

Magnetic resonance imaging

Ultrasonography

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